[Sca-cooks] "Blattes de Bysance" in the Baghdad cookery book

[Gorgeous Muiredach]

> > I'll drop a note to my dad, he might be able to help find it in his
> > mega dictionary of French language.
>
>Thanks, though according to the info I got from Francesco and
>Phlip, it seems to have been a garbling of the Arabic.  (Yet another
>case of "oil from the spleen".)

As it happens, my father tells me he couldn't find it anywhere, even in his
trusty Robert de la Langue Francaise in 9 volumes.  He's now thoroughly
boggled and on a challenge, I'll have to send him the info from
Francesco!  He gets that way...  :-)

I was talking with Olwen, and decided that perhaps I should adopt the
following "tag"

Gorgeous Muiredach the Odd
Shire of Forth Castle
Meridies...


Gorgeous Muiredach
Rokkehealden Shire
Kingdom of the Middle
aka
Nicolas Steenhout
"You must deal with me as I think of myself" J. Hockenberry